People Type: Communities and Urban Sociology

The Sociology of Communities focuses broadly on communities as systems of social relationships, with regard to their structure, function, relations with larger systems, and the processes that lead to change. The teaching and research interests of faculty in this area cover a wide range of subjects. In focusing on various issues, emphasis is placed on the application of a variety of theoretical perspectives, some of which are interdisciplinary in character.

Bell, Michael

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Besbris, Max

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an economic, environmental, and urban sociologist interested in questions of stratification and decision making. Empirically, I study residential mobility and immobility, housing costs and housing market intermediaries, and how climate change is impacting housing markets more generally. In my work, I employ various methods and …

Curtis, Katherine J.

Home Page Department of Community & Environmental Sociology More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Dr. Katherine J. Curtis is Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work is centered in demography and extends to spatial, environmental, rural, and …

Rich, Peter

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My core research focuses on the relationship between residential attainment and access to educational opportunity in the US, where I investigate connections between structural inequalities and individual choices: Education: Ph.D., New York University (2016) Departmental Areas of Interest: Communities and Urban Sociology; …

Rogers, Joel

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternative Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Joel Rogers is the Noam Chomsky Professor of Law, Public Affairs, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he also directs Havens Wright Center for Social Justice and High Road Strategy Center, a national resource and strategy center on high-road development …

White, Monica

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